Category: Law
Three Books about the Roberts Court
[table id=7 /] The U.S. Supreme Court recently entered its eleventh term with Chief Justice John Roberts at the helm at the Court’s seventeenth Chief Justice. During Robert’s tenure, the Court has been at the center of important and often controversial legal battles, from same sex marriage to the Affordable Care Act to the […]
December 28, 2015
Court Artist Arthur Lien Provides Window into U.S. Supreme Court
Cameras aren’t allowed in the U.S. Supreme Court, which makes the work of court sketch artist Arthur Lien all the more valuable. His renderings of the justices, the lawyers, and the parties are often the only visual depictions of the high-profile proceedings that the American public gets to see. For instance, without Lien’s artwork, most […]
December 14, 2015
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall: Two Great Reads
John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation, by Harlow Giles Unger; DaCapo Press (2014) John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, By Jean Edward Smith; Henry Holt & Co (1996) John Marshall, who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1835, is credited with elevating the […]
December 7, 2015
“Making Sense of the Constitution ” Makes Sense for General Readers
“Making Sense of the Constitution: A Primer on the Supreme Court and its Struggle to Apply Our Fundamental Law,” Southern Illinois University Press, 2012 There are dozens of books written for the general public that summarize the things people need to know about the United States Constitution and the Supreme Court. Some of them are […]
November 2, 2015
Charles Slack and “Liberty’s First Crisis”
Liberty’s First Crisis, by Charles Slack, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015 “The greatest enemy of liberty is fear…When [people] feel threatened, their tolerance shrinks.” Liberty and freedom in America have been threatened many times since the United States Constitution was drafted in 1787. People around the world who acknowledge themselves as free people always seem to […]
October 19, 2015
The Legal Evolution of the Social Media Hashtags
Social Media Hashtags are becoming so popular that they have gained legal recognition as intellectual property. As their value to businesses grows, they are also becoming the subject of lawsuits involving trademark infringement and false advertising. Hashtags started on Twitter as a way to link posts on the site, but are now used all over […]
September 1, 2015
Coping With Stress In Law School
A verified statistic shows that lawyers suffer from depression at triple the rate of non-lawyers. Recently, research has also proven that the rigors of law school can be harmful to the health of students. In a recent law review article, entitled “Killing Them Softly: Neuroscience Reveals How Brain Cells Die from Law School Stress and […]
July 13, 2015
Harvard Wins Webby Award for Addressing Legal “Link Rot”
The Harvard Law School Library won the Webby Award for the best legal website of 2015 by developing Perma.cc Perma.cc addresses a significant yet largely unknown issue in the legal industry known as “link rot.” The term refers to the condition of Internet links no longer working. The problem infects legal writing all the way […]
June 15, 2015
Where Have All the Law Students Gone?
Law school enrollment dropped again, according to the latest statistics from the American Bar Association (ABA). In total, first-year enrolled has plummeted nearly 30 percent from its peak in 2010. According to the new ABA data, almost two-thirds of ABA accredited law schools experienced declines in first-year enrollment from the prior year. Enrollment of 1L […]
June 8, 2015
George Orwell’s 1984 in America
George Orwell’s 1984 depicted a spy society as a parody of communism gone global. Edward Snowden revealed the reality of George Orwell’s spy society in the most unlikely and unpredictable place– 21st Century America. The extent of the federal government’s spy network data surveillance activities on U.S. soil by the National Security Agency (NSA) has […]
May 18, 2015